The Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on the SWIFT Midex Mission

he burst alert telescope (BAT) is one of three instruments on the Swift MIDEX spacecraft to study gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The BAT first detects the GRB and localizes the burst direction to an accuracy of 1–4 arcmin within 20 s after the start of the event. The GRB trigger initiates an autonomous spacecraft slew to point the two narrow field-of-view (FOV) instruments at the burst location within 20–70 s so to make follow-up X-ray and optical observations. The BAT is a wide-FOV, coded-aperture instrument with a CdZnTe detector plane. The detector plane is composed of 32,768 pieces of CdZnTe (4×4×2 mm), and the coded-aperture mask is composed of ∼52,000 pieces of lead (5×5×1 mm) with a 1-m separation between mask and detector plane. The BAT operates over the 15–150 keV energy range with ∼7 keV resolution, a sensitivity of ∼10⁻⁸ erg s⁻¹ cm⁻², and a 1.4 sr (half-coded) FOV. We expect to detect > 100 GRBs/year for a 2-year mission. The BAT also performs an all-sky hard X-ray survey with a sensitivity of ∼2 m Crab (systematic limit) and it serves as a hard X-ray transient monitor.     

光纤衰减测试系统的研究

在光纤通信中,光纤衰减是光纤捏的一项重要指标,通常需要测试光纤在某一较宽频段内各个波长的光纤衰减值,以选择合适的光源工作波长,笔者设计了一种新颖的双频检测光电系统,并采用单片机进行数据采集和处理。     

一种基于相关向量机的白细胞检出新方法

提出了一种基于相关向量机(RVM)的白细胞检出新方法.首先,借助RVM对一维直方图进行拟合,获得稀疏的相关向量.然后,直接从这些数量有限的相关向量中筛选出所需的阈值.最后,基于前一步得到的阈值,将完整、连续的白细胞区域从原始图像中分割出来.该方法已成功地应用于白细胞检出,有效地降低了由光照和染色引起的干扰.该方法计算效率高,无需设置额外参数.实验结果表明了该方法的优良性能.     

γ测井仪探管角响应对测量结果的影响

介绍了γ测井仪探管角响应的概念、检定方法,分析了引起角响应的原因及其对测量结果不确定度的贡献.     

Fast spectroscopy of the 4 November 1978 gamma-ray burst

The Franco-Soviet Signe experiments on Venera 11 and Venera 12 allow a spectral analysis of gamma-ray bursts with a time resolution of 250 ms. Evidence is presented for i) short annihilation flashes of up to 20 photons cm⁻²s⁻¹ and ii) rapid variations of the continuum, from a study of the intense 4 November 1978 event.     

斯特林制冷机与红外探测器耦合集成技术

主要针对斯特林制冷机与红外探测器的耦合集成技术进行了设计、分析,研制了整体式耦合和分离式耦合2种结构的斯特林制冷机/红外探测器组件,并通过了试验测试,性能指标可以满足要求.     

AGATE: A high energy gamma-ray telescope using drift chambers

The exciting results from the highly successful Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) has contributed significantly to increasing our understanding of high energy gamma-ray astronomy. A follow-on mission to EGRET is needed to continue these scientific advances as well as to address the several new scientific questions raised by EGRET. Here we describe the work being done on the development of the Advanced Gamma-Ray Astronomy Telescope Experiment (AGATE), visualized as the successor to EGRET. In order to achieve the scientific goals, AGATE will have higher sensitivity than EGRET in the energy range 30 MeV to 30 GeV, larger effective area, better angular resolution, and an extended low and high energy range. In its design, AGATE will follow the tradition of the earlier gamma-ray telescopes, SAS-2, COS B, and EGRET, and will have the same four basic components of an anticoincidence system, directional coincidence system, track imaging, and energy measurement systems. However, due to its much larger size, AGATE will use drift chambers as its track imaging system rather than the spark chambers used by EGRET. Drift chambers are an obvious choice as they have less deadtime per event, better spatial resolution, and are relatively easy and inexpensive to build. Drift chambers have low power requirements, so that many layers of drift chambers can be included. To test the feasibility of using drift chambers, we have constructed a prototype instrument consisting of a stack of sixteen 1/2m × 1/2m drift chambers and have measured the spatial resolution using atmospheric muons. The results on the drift chamber performance in the laboratory are presented here.     

超构材料红外探测芯片的研究进展

在梳理超构材料的概念与发展历程的基础上,着重分析了超构材料对波长、偏振态、相位等电磁波参量的调控作用。结合红外探测芯片及成像系统的发展趋势,介绍了超构材料与红外探测芯片的结合,及其在双色/多色成像、偏振成像、高光谱成像等先进成像模式中的应用,以及国内外相关研究进展。     

What we knew,what we know and what we will know about cosmic gamma-ray bursts

The paper is devoted to the present crisis in the field of cosmic gamma-ray bursts. There are two different paradigms of the phenomenon, which have practically equal numbers of supporters. The cosmological one associates bursts with collisions of compact objects at distances up to those with red-shifts of about 1–2. The galactic paradigm assumes that bursts are generated by neutron stars in the extended galactic halo. The present situation is shown to be very close to the ultimate establishment of the paradigm of the origin of cosmic gamma-ray bursts.     

面向太空环境应用的抗辐照有源光纤特性研究

针对太空恶劣辐射环境会造成光器件的光学性能下降或失效的问题,利用改良化学气相沉积法(MCVD)结合原子层沉积(ALD)掺杂技术制备铋铒共掺光纤(BEDF)和掺铒光纤(EDF),经不同辐照剂量的伽马射线处理后,对它们的光谱特性进行对比研究。光纤样品分别经0.3kGy、0.5kGy、0.8kGy和1.5kGy辐照处理,对比光谱发现BEDF的辐照诱导损耗(RIA)的增幅明显低于EDF,特别是经1.5kGy的辐照处理后,EDF的RIA比BEDF高1.93dB/m。EDF的荧光强度随辐照剂量的增加而降低,且低于未辐照前的荧光强度;而对于BEDF而言,其荧光强度随辐照剂量的增加先增加后减弱,且均高于未辐照的荧光强度。实验结果表明,BEDF具有一定抗辐照特性,对应用于太空环境具有重要研究意义。